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Klára Hůrková

since 2026 Member of PEN Deutschland

since 2019 Member of Czech Centre of P.E.N.

Klára Hůrková was born on 15 February 1962 in Prague, Czech Republic, and has been living in Aachen, Germany, since 1991.

She is a poet, prose writer and translator, writes in Czech, German and English. Hůrková has published fourteen collections of poetry, three collections of short stories, a novella and a literary research study on Tom Stoppard and Václav Havel. Her poems have received various awards (see below) and have been translated into different languages. Hůrková studied Philosophy, English Literature and Art History at universities in Prague, Aachen and Norwich, UK, and works as a teacher of English and Art. She is a member of the Czech and German P.E.N. Centres.

LITERARY AWARDS

First Prize in the English Poetry Contest of

The World Congress of Poets 2023 on MSC Divina, Mediterranean Sea, Italy and Greece

Prize of the Year 2023 International Writers Association "Pjetër Bogdani" Honorary Prize for a book in Albanian

POSTPOETRY Nordrhein-Westfalen 2018, NRW, Germany

Preis für politische Lyrik 2017, Thema "Europa" 

2. Platz (Publikumsabstimmung), für das Poème collectif "Kolonien der Strömung", zusammen mit Monika Littau und Maria Topali. Berlin, Germany.

Wiener Werkstattpreis 2003, Thema „Grenzen“, Sparte Lyrik.

1. Platz der Leserwertung und 2. Platz der Jury, Vienna, Austria

The Hilton House Poet of the Year, Norwich, 1998.

2 Special Commendations (Category A for Individual Poems and Category B for Collections). Norwich, United Kingdom

Laureát uměleckých cen Občanského sdružení V-Art, 2003, Písek, Czech Republic